Shakespeare




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Alec - The Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare’s shortest play at just 1,770 lines long.

Curtis - Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway, was 8 years older than Shakespeare and pregnant before their marriage.

Alice - Shakespeare introduced about 3,000 words into the English language. http://www.ibtimes.com/william-shakespeares-birthday-20-interesting-facts-about-life-plays-bard-1892531

MinSang - Shakespeare wore a gold hoop earring. (http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-william-shakespeare)

Cody- Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616. In his will, he left most of his real estate to his daughter Susanna. A statement was inserted between the lines in the will, which said: "I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture." The "furniture" was the bedclothes for the bed. This is all he left his wife in his will, and the only time she was mentioned. http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/01/11_shakespeare.html

Sally- Shakespeare has no surviving descendants.

http://www.yurtopic.com/society/people/shakespeare-facts.html

Claire - Shakespeare wrote a curse on his grave, challenging anyone who dares to move him from his final resting place: //Good friend for Jesus’ sake forbear, // //To dig the dust enclosed here: // //Blest be the man that spares these stones, // //And curst be he that moves my bones. // http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-facts/

Leslie - Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets, which is an average of 1.5 plays per year since 1589. http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-facts/

Phoebe - Shakespeare had a pair of twins (born February 2nd, 1585 -- Hamnet and Judith) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/playwrights/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-shakespeare/

Jonathan - Nobody knows what Shakespeare did between 1585 and 1592. http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-william-shakespeare

Sophia - Some of Shakespeare's signatures have survived on original documents. In none of them does he spell his name in what has become the standard way. He spells it Shakespe; Shakspe; Shakspere and Shakespear. http://www.amazingandweird.com/facts/25-amazing-and-interesting-facts-about-william-shakespeare/

Bailey - In his will, Shakespeare left his wife his "second-best bed".

http://www.ibtimes.com/william-shakespeares-birthday-20-interesting-facts-about-life-plays-bard-1892531

Connor- Shakespeare’s last play- The Two Noble Kinsmen- is reckoned to have been written in 1613 when he was 49 years old. http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-facts/

Hans - Shakespeare occasionally acted in his own plays. He took role as a ghost in "Hamlet". http://www.ibtimes.com/william-shakespeares-birthday-20-interesting-facts-about-life-plays-bard-1892531

Justin - In the few signatures that have survived, Shakespeare spelled his name “Willm Shaksp,” “William Shakespe,” “Wm Shakspe,” “William Shakspere,” ”Willm Shakspere,” and “William Shakspeare”--but never “William Shakespeare. http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/01/11_shakespeare.html

Giulia- One of Shakespeare’s relatives on his mother’s side, William Arden, was arrested for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I, imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed.

Andrew - Shakespeare's shortest play, __The Comedy of Errors__ is only a third of the length of his longest, __Hamlet__, which takes 4 hours to perform.

Jing-‘William Shakespeare’ is an anagram of ‘I am a weakish speller’.

Jessica - The American President Abraham Lincoln was a great lover of Shakespeare's plays and frequently recited from them to his friends. His assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a famous Shakespearean actor.

Sonny - During some of the performances of his plays, Shakespeare's theatres stank.

Kevin - "frugal", "skim milk", "hint", and "bedroom" are all words that are believed to have been invented by Shakespeare

==Samir- Shakespeare’s parents were probably illiterate, and his children almost certainly were. ==

Renny - Shakespeare's signatures were never spelled as "Shakespeare" on original documents. Instead, they were written as Shakespe, Shakspe, Shakspere, and Shakespear.

http://www.amazingandweird.com/facts/25-amazing-and-interesting-facts-about-william-shakespeare/

Sydney - The word 'love' appears 2,191 times in Shakespeare's completed works. http://www.britishcouncil.org/blog/fun-international-facts-about-shakespeare

Justin - His wife is called Anne Hathaway.

Dylan- Shakespeare is the second most quoted writer in the English language--after the various writers of the Bible. http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-facts/

Shakespeare’s father held a lot of different jobs, and at one point got paid to drink beer. -Albert